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Criminal

Gil From London

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.739.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2015

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Karen Miller met a man named Gil Harper on Facebook. They started flirting. The flirtation grew more serious. Eventually, they planned to meet in real life. Gil would travel from London to meet Karen for her birthday. With his arrival just a few days away, Karen's son scrambled to learn more about Gil's identity. But trying to determine whether someone is who they say they are turned out to be a whole lot more confusing and dangerous than Chris imagined. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: iTunes.com/CriminalShow. We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop.  Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for this show comes from Krakan.

0:03.0

Krypto is like the financial system, but different.

0:07.0

It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score,

0:11.0

or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:13.7

crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time.

0:18.4

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.0

This is a high risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. At Barclays, we're here for the land of football.

0:35.0

We're here for the Premier League.

0:38.0

And the Barclays Women's Super League.

0:41.0

We're here for the football chance for giving more girls a chance. We're

0:48.1

here for the grassroots and all the muddy booths. From schools to stadiums, we're here for it all.

0:55.0

Barclays, here for the land of football.

1:00.0

You know, he told me he was a widower that he had lost his wife and his daughter in a car accident

1:07.9

which had happened 10 years ago and then I shared that I was a widow as well, and that I had lost Kevin almost three years ago.

1:18.0

This is Karen Miller. She's 68 years old, retired, and living in Simi Valley, California. And I had a deep amount of

1:27.3

empathy for him thinking that he lost a wife and a child.

1:33.0

I couldn't even imagine that.

1:36.0

And so I was very, very sympathetic, empathetic,

1:41.0

because that's how I am. That's how I am with everybody. As

1:45.8

Karen mentioned she lost her husband Kevin a few years ago and she's still grieving.

1:50.4

The last few years have been hard for her and she says she certainly wasn't in the market for a new boyfriend

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